Freedom through Unity in the Community
What is the Whitman Freedom Team?
We're a proactive force paving the way for meaningful transformation through our unique Community 10-point Connection Model. This model unites core members of Whitman's community, including leaders, officials, parents, and passionate individuals just like you, bonded by a shared commitment to anti-racism, diversity, and trust-building.
Our Mission?
Love. Inclusion. Trust.
The Whitman Freedom Team works to preserve freedom through unity in the community. Its members meet monthly to explore ways of offering dialogue and support to the entire community with a goal of promoting love, inclusion and trust (LIT) and moving beyond tolerance to embracing, celebrating and sharing our community’s diversity.
Get Involved
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping a community where freedom meets community? The Whitman Freedom Team is more than just an organization; it's a beacon of hope and a living testament to the power of collective action in promoting love, inclusion and trust.
Whether you're a local leader, business owner, engaged citizen, retiree, budding young leader, or a veteran who's served your country, Whitman Freedom Team needs your unique perspective, experiences, and drive.
2026 Fall Reflection: If We Build It, They Will Come
In reading “A Message for Freedom, Tolerance & Justice,” Michael Kryzanek’s Happy New Year’s message for 2026, two seemingly disparate statements popped into my head… The familiar statement from the Declaration of Independence:
And the dream quote from Ray Kinsella in the Field of Dream:
The Whitman Freedom Team is clearly devoted to encouraging its citizens to continue living up to the terms of the Declaration; it invites people to join in discussions and activities that promote love, inclusion and trust. It recognizes that our strongest bond is our shared vision. Our common belief, our celebration that makes our American states so special is that they are truly UNITED states. Further, they are united in the conviction that liberty and equality for all forms the basis for government.
We have to unite because now our very freedoms are under attack, as Michael reminds us of recent mass shootings, anti-Semitism, and mistreatment of migrants. We can look the other way and allow tyranny to destroy our liberties … but we won’t. Why? For one simple reason. Our inalienable right …. our inalienable right is “endowed by our Creator!” No man gave it to us; no man can take it away.
Further, we are bound together in Whitman by a common background. The backgrounds of our citizens are not similar. Our unity grows out of and is strengthened by our diversity. We’re a quilt, not a single-colored cloth, a coat of many colors, and we are proud our town is a welcoming place.
Looking forward to 2027, if the Freedom Team keeps expanding, “if we keep building it, they will come,” in greater numbers, then our town will truly thrive and survive the disharmony and hatred and dystopia of the recent past…. And 2027 will truly be a Happy New Year!
Dr. Carl Kowalski, Whitman Freedom Team member